Notes

"About three years since, I published the two first tracts in this volume, then supposing them to be all that could be obtained of the number known to have existed. Within a month after they were published, the Hon. Nathan Appleton very obligingly furnished me with two others, and about two or three months after that, my valued antiquarian friend, P. Force, Esq. of Washington, D.C. furnished me with the last of the five ... Some notes were prepared to the two first tracts by Mr. E. Tuckerman, Jr. ... the remaining notes to these two, and those to the other three have been added by the editor. These tracts were all in small folio, and their paging is preserved in this edition, in brackets."--Preface, p. [3], 1st count.